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Curricular Offerings in Business Education in the Junior Colleges of Texas (open access)

Curricular Offerings in Business Education in the Junior Colleges of Texas

The primary aim is to discover the number and nature of curricular offerings in the field of business education in the junior colleges of Texas. A secondary purpose is to study the growth and development of business education in the schools and colleges of the United States from the earliest days to the present period.
Date: 1947
Creator: Green, William B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Changes in the Offerings of Secondary Schools in Texas and Louisiana since 1920 (open access)

A Comparison of Changes in the Offerings of Secondary Schools in Texas and Louisiana since 1920

The purpose of this study is to make a comparison of the curriculum changes made in the secondary schools of Texas and Louisiana since 1920, and to determine if these changes conform to changes in accepted educational aims.
Date: 1947
Creator: Phillips, Orville L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interesting the Disinterested School Child through Arts and Crafts (open access)

Interesting the Disinterested School Child through Arts and Crafts

The problem is to determine why fifteen lower grade pupils were absent from school so many times during the previous year and to ascertain whether the pupils' attendance records could be improved in the present year through arts and crafts.
Date: 1947
Creator: Lindsey, Vera Grace
System: The UNT Digital Library
Responsibility of the Secondary School for the Social Development of its Students (open access)

Responsibility of the Secondary School for the Social Development of its Students

The problem in this study is twofold. First, there will be an attempt to determine the values that organizations in the secondary school have for the development of its students. Second, a survey will be made of the four-year accredited high schools in District Five of Texas to determine how and to what extent they are realizing their responsibilities in this respect.
Date: 1947
Creator: Baxter, Billie Otella
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of Parent-Teacher Associations in the Second District of Texas (open access)

An Evaluation of Parent-Teacher Associations in the Second District of Texas

The problem under consideration in this study is one having to do with an attempted analysis of the efficiency and worth of parent-teacher associations in the schools of North Texas.
Date: 1947
Creator: Sargent, Georgia
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nitrogen Metabolism of College Women on Self-Selected Diets (open access)

Nitrogen Metabolism of College Women on Self-Selected Diets

The purpose of the present study is to determine the nitrogen intake and output (in both urine and feces) of two groups of Texas college women living in the Home Management House at North Texas State College.
Date: 1947
Creator: Boshart, Gayle Jewel
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Possible Need of an Aircraft Training Program in Fort Worth Vocational Education Program (open access)

An Analysis of the Possible Need of an Aircraft Training Program in Fort Worth Vocational Education Program

The purpose of this study is to make an analysis of the extent of the airplane industry in the immediate area of Fort Worth, Texas, to determine the need, if any, of adding a course in Airplane Industry to the curriculum of the Technical High School of Fort Worth, Texas.
Date: 1947
Creator: Brooks, William A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of the Commercial Curricula in the Secondary Schools of Texas (open access)

Development of the Commercial Curricula in the Secondary Schools of Texas

The purpose of this study is to trace the growth and development of the commercial curricula in the secondary schools of Texas and to relate the changes in aims and objectives of such curricula in such a way that a reading of it will furnish a concise, definite, and clear understanding of what has happened in the past.
Date: 1947
Creator: Chowning, Charles Odom
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Student and Teacher Objectives at Brantley-Draughon College, Fort Worth, Texas (open access)

A Comparison of Student and Teacher Objectives at Brantley-Draughon College, Fort Worth, Texas

This study involves three things: first, a comparison of the general objectives of students and teachers; second, a comparison of jobs wanted by students with jobs for which the teachers think they are training their students; and third, a comparison of student and teacher objectives in the individual subjects.
Date: 1947
Creator: Cox, Kenneth
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Determine the Effect of Certain Environmental Conditions upon Study (open access)

To Determine the Effect of Certain Environmental Conditions upon Study

The problem under consideration is to determine the effect of certain environmental conditions upon the process of studying. This study attempts to answer the question, How much effect, positive or negative, will various environmental conditions have upon study?
Date: 1947
Creator: Daniel, Artie Arwell
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Survey of the Graduates of Technical High School, Dallas Texas, from 1936-1945 to Determine the Effectiveness of the Training Program (open access)

A Survey of the Graduates of Technical High School, Dallas Texas, from 1936-1945 to Determine the Effectiveness of the Training Program

The purpose of the study is to analyze the results of a survey of the graduates of Technical High School in Dallas since 1938 to determine the effectiveness of the training given by the school in helping the graduate choose an occupation and giving him skills and attitudes that will help him get a job and make a good worker.
Date: 1947
Creator: Butler, James A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Programs of Health and Physical Education for Girls in the Junior High Schools of Class AA Type of District One of the University of Texas Interscholastic League (open access)

An Evaluation of the Programs of Health and Physical Education for Girls in the Junior High Schools of Class AA Type of District One of the University of Texas Interscholastic League

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the programs of health and physical education for girls in the junior high schools of the Class AA type of District One of the University of Texas Interscholastic League.
Date: 1947
Creator: George, Gladys Lynch
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Duties of the Deans of Women in the Seven State Teachers Colleges of Texas (open access)

A Study of the Duties of the Deans of Women in the Seven State Teachers Colleges of Texas

The problem undertaken is a study of the duties of the deans of women in the seven state teachers colleges of Texas, their relationship to other members of the faculty, and special problems with which they are confronted. The study also includes a discussion of routine office duties, dormitory duties, public relations work, academic teaching, social duties, and the main professional satisfactions of the position.
Date: 1947
Creator: Greer, Nora Jane
System: The UNT Digital Library
Disposition of Disputed Cases, Involving Non-Basic Wage, Union Security, and Non-Wage Issues of the Oil Refining Industry by the Eighth Regional War Labor Board (open access)

Disposition of Disputed Cases, Involving Non-Basic Wage, Union Security, and Non-Wage Issues of the Oil Refining Industry by the Eighth Regional War Labor Board

This investigation is a study of the issues involved in the disputed cases pertaining to the Oil Refining Industry which were certified to the Eighth Regional War Labor Board serving Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana during World War II.
Date: 1947
Creator: Grubbs, Kenneth R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developing a Course of Study for Eighth-Grade Social Science in the Plainview Junior High School, Plainview, Texas (open access)

Developing a Course of Study for Eighth-Grade Social Science in the Plainview Junior High School, Plainview, Texas

The purpose of this study is to determine the nature of a curriculum for use in the eighth-grade social science classes of the Plainview Junior High School, Plainview, Texas.
Date: 1947
Creator: Flowers, Lucile
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Determine a Sound Method of Distributing the Public School Funds in Texas (open access)

To Determine a Sound Method of Distributing the Public School Funds in Texas

It is the purpose of this study to discover and report a sound method of distributing the public school funds of Texas. This investigation will discuss present-day practices in distributing the public school funds, and where advisable will make recommendations to secure more adequate distribution.
Date: 1947
Creator: Alderdice, Joseph Lloyd
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of the Social and Academic Status of Private Pre-school and Public School Children in the Second Year of a Dallas Elementary School (open access)

A Comparative Study of the Social and Academic Status of Private Pre-school and Public School Children in the Second Year of a Dallas Elementary School

This study will endeavor to make a comparative study of seventeen children in the second grade in an elementary school in Dallas that attended private schools and omitted the first year of the public school, and seventeen children that are in the second grade after completing the first grade in the public school. The purpose of the study in comparing the social and academic status of the two groups is to determine if the non-scholastic child after a year of private school is able to adjust and accomplish an academic and social status on the level of the second year of the public school as compared with children of school age that have been through the first year and are now in their second year.
Date: 1947
Creator: Aldredge, Ruby
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Determine a Sound Source of Public School Revenue in Texas (open access)

To Determine a Sound Source of Public School Revenue in Texas

The purpose of this study is to attempt to determine a sound source of public school revenue in the state of Texas.
Date: 1947
Creator: Davis, William Wilson
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Determine if there is a Need of Industrial Arts Teachers for Special Education for Exceptional Children in the Public Schools of Texas (open access)

To Determine if there is a Need of Industrial Arts Teachers for Special Education for Exceptional Children in the Public Schools of Texas

The purpose of this study is to make a survey of the teaching of handicapped children in the public schools of Texas to determine, if possible, the extent to which Industrial Arts is used in present teaching techniques as well as its importance in the future.
Date: 1947
Creator: Duncan, David W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Use of Auditory and Visual Aids in Eighty Public Schools of Texas (open access)

The Use of Auditory and Visual Aids in Eighty Public Schools of Texas

The problem of this investigation was two-fold: first, to obtain general information on auditory and visual aids and their apparent values in the schoolroom; and second, to find out to what extent these aids were used in eighty representative schools of Texas during 1945-1946.
Date: 1947
Creator: Fagg, James Noel
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Pupil Failures as they Exist in the Senior High School of Stamford, Texas (open access)

A Study of Pupil Failures as they Exist in the Senior High School of Stamford, Texas

The purpose of this study was threefold: (1) to determine the degree of pupil failure as it exists in the Senior High School, Stamford, Texas; (2) to consider the extent to which the "basic factors" of failure contribute to pupil failure in this school; and (3) to submit suggestions as to how pupil failure may be reduced to a minimum in the Stamford Senior High School.
Date: 1947
Creator: Flemins, Mabel Bryan
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Experimental Study of Student Progress in General Mathematics (open access)

An Experimental Study of Student Progress in General Mathematics

The purpose of this investigation is to make an experimental study of the compiled data obtained from the results of three standardized tests that were administered to two groups of general mathematics students during one semester; and to determine, if possible, by the scores, whether the prescribed course in mathematics makes for any significant increases, or losses in student progress.
Date: 1947
Creator: Christian, Jewel Morris
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Vegetable Consumption and Vegetable Likes and Dislikes of Pupils in the J. M. Lindsay Elementary School, Gainesville, Texas (open access)

A Study of Vegetable Consumption and Vegetable Likes and Dislikes of Pupils in the J. M. Lindsay Elementary School, Gainesville, Texas

The problem of this investigation was to survey the noon-meal vegetable consumption of 248 elementary-school children in the J. M. Lindsay School, Gainesville, Texas, for a period of ten days, and to compile lists of the vegetables which the children indicated that they liked or disliked.
Date: 1947
Creator: Blanton, Adeline Piott
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Modern Philosophy and Modern Psychology of Education (open access)

A Study of the Modern Philosophy and Modern Psychology of Education

The purpose of this study is three-fold: 1. To make a study of modern philosophy and modern psychology of education. 2. To show by comparison how well the Gainesville elementary schools comply in a modern philosophy and a modern psychology of education. 3. To make recommendations for changes that could be made for the improvement of the Gainesville elementary school system.
Date: 1947
Creator: Clements, Bess
System: The UNT Digital Library